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Girl Most Likely

Girl Most Likely stars Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, Saturday Night Live) as Imogene, a New York career girl who…

By Melanie Weaver
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Filth

After the last two disappointing film adaptations of Irvine Welsh novels, The Acid House (1998) and Ecstasy (2011),…

By Tom Yates
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The To Do List

The catalogue of teen or “frat” American comedies set decades after their conception is a curious one. It…

By Guy de Vito
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Blue Jasmine

In Woody Allen’s 44th film, we first meet New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), shortly after she has…

By Clarissa Waldron
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In the Name Of

In a working-class, god-forsaken small village in Poland, a priest runs a centre for delinquent boys as an…

By Eleanor MacFarlane
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Cold Comes the Night

When a down-on-her-luck single mother crosses paths with an aging, sight- impaired Russian gangster, the two form an…

By Marc Zanotti
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In the Shadow of a Man

Based on an old Egyptian proverb that exemplifies the deep-rooted patriarchal bias prevalent throughout the country, In the…

By Tom Yates
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Hawking

Penned and narrated by the eponymous “master of the universe”, Hawking chronicles the life of iconic physicist Stephen…

By Aoife O'Driscoll
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Prevertere

The tagline of Prevertere (the new offering from writer/director Brian McGuire) reads “a pervert's quest for love”. As…

By Annie Robinson